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| Last Updated: Apr 3, 2012 - 2:47:55 AM |
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Somalia: UN Envoy meets Somali government leaders
31 Mar 31, 2011 - 11:16:13 AM
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United Nation’s special representative to Somalia Augustine Mahiga met Somali government top leaders in the war-ravaged capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, Radio Garowe reports.
Mahiga and his delegation met Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi (Farmajo) and Parliament Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden in Somali Presidential house and encouraged them to attend consultative meeting hosted by UN Political office for Somalia in Kenyan capital Nairobi next month.
Sources told Garowe Online, Mahiga handed Somali government top leaders invitation letter to attend the meeting and appealed to President Sharif and Prime Minister Farmajo to revise the government extended for one more year, he stated the international community will never accept the government extended term.
Somali President and Prime Minister opposed Mahiga’s suggestion and said they extended the government’s term one year to complete their incomplete activities in the year.
“We need to move past on the transition period and Somali civilians to get advantages from it and for us to finish our incomplete activities,” said Prime Minister Farmajo in a joint press conference with UN Envoy Augustan Mahiga in Mogadishu, the restive capital of Somalia.
Augustan Mahiga said that United Nation wants to see elections taking place in Somalia on August this year and he visited Mogadishu to bring invitation to government top leaders to attend the forth-coming consultative meeting which will be held in Nairobi later next month.
The government term is scheduled to expire on August this year but the cabinet has already extended their term one year and the parliament house three more years.
Somalia was without functioning government since 1991, when militias overthrew Siad Barre’s administration.
GAROWEONLINE
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